I respond to SRNT's "Listening Session" on the proposal to exclude all recreational nicotine companies from SRNT membership, meetings, and publications. I strongly disagree.

The irresistible urge to make bad policy that excessively restricts safer alternatives to smoking is on the rise. This time in Spain. I respond to a consultation on anti-vaping and pouch proposals.

Mexico's ban on vapes and heated tobacco products about to become an absurd part of the constitution. Obviously, this is a terrible mistake on multiple levels. I provide five points for legislators to consider.

The letter argues that any benefits are likely to be heavily outweighed by unintended consequences through additional smoking, illicit trade and risky workarounds. I highlight a significant flaw in the original 2021 analysis supporting the flavour ban policy. The analysis assumed a gateway effect from vaping to smoking and that reductions in vaping would also reduce smoking. The reverse is more likely.

Response to a Danish proposal to limit nicotine in pouches to 9mg per pouch. I argue this is too low to compete with cigarettes and likely to lead to unintended consequences.

A nicotine limit of around 20 milligrams per pouch should be set to start with and lowered only if a market survey shows harmful unintended consequences are likely to be negligible or minor and acceptable. In is not inherently more cautious to set a lower limit.

Banning e-cigarettes does not eliminate the product from the country; it shows irresponsibility on the part of the government.

Why is there a demand for nicotine? The demand derives from a simple proposition: For some people, nicotine use makes them feel or function better. Looking out to 2040, we should see the demand for nicotine as robust and resilient. The demand for any particular way of taking it is much more fluid.

We should celebrate ‘realists’ and beware of ‘idealists.’ Idealists do well in the rhetorical world of goal setting, aspirations and optics while realists do better in the real world. The problem is that the idealists obstruct the realists.

ETHRA response to EU member state Health Ministers promoting flavour bans

We should celebrate ‘realists’ and beware of ‘idealists.’ Idealists do well in the rhetorical world of goal setting, aspirations and optics while realists do better in the real world. The problem is that the idealists obstruct the realists.

The UK's proposed vape tax is an annual £1,000 tax on quitting smoking - it makes no sense.

A submission to the UK Parliament highlighting the flaws in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

My response to a consultation on new legislation that would impose even stricter restrictions on access to vapes in Australia, aggravating the malign effects of an already disastrous prohibition.

I set out reasons why the government of Spain needs to reconsider its anti-vaping measures and recognise the beneficial interaction between smoking and vaping.

16 experts call for supportive flanking policies to improve the impact of forthcoming US tobacco product standards

New Nicotine Alliance letter to the Regulatory Policy Committee.

The disruptive effects of innovation on industry, consumers, regulators and anti-tobacco activists

Response to the Brazilian regulator's proposal for a prohibition of vapes and heated tobacco products

Analysis of official papers for FCTC COP-10 held 5-10 February 2024 in Panama.

An interview covering my views on the past present and future of recreational nicotine

Four evidence briefs covering vaping safety, switching, youth and policy